Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane (Child 28)
Francis James Child * Track #28 On The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
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- #1Riddles Wisely Expounded (Child 1A)
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- #2The Elfin Knight (Child 2A)
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- #3The Fause Knight Upon the Road (Child 3)
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- #4Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight (Child 4)
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- #5Gil Brenton (Child 5)
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- #6Willie’s Lady (Child 6)
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- #7Earl Brand (Child 7B)
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- #8Erlinton (Child 8A)
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- #9The Fair Flower of Northumberland (Child 9B)
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- #10The Twa Sisters (Child 10R)
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- #11The Cruel Brother (Child 11A)
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- #12Lord Randall (Child 12A)
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- #13Edward (Child 13B)
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- #14Babylon or The Bonnie Banks o Fordie (Child 14A)
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- #15Leesome Brand (Child 15A)
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- #16Sheath and Knife (Child 16)
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- #17Hind Horn (Child 17A)
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- #18Sir Lionel (Child 18A)
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- #19King Orfeo (Child 19)
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- #20The Cruel Mother (Child 20)
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- #21The Maid and the Palmer (Child 21)
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- #22St. Stephen and Herod (Child 22)
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- #23Judas (Child 23)
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- #24Bonnie Annie (Child 24A)
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- #25Willie’s Lyke-Wake (Child 25A)
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- #26The Three Ravens (Child 26)
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- #27The Whummil Bore (Child 27)
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- #28Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane (Child 28)
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- #29The Boy and the Mantle (Child 29)
Anonymous
- #30King Arthur and King Cornwall (Child 30)
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- #31The Marriage of Sir Gawain (Child 31)
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- #32Kemp Owyne (Child 34A)
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- #33
Alison Gross (Child 35)Anonymous
- #34The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea (Child 36)
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- #35Thomas Rhymer (Child 37A)
Anonymous
- #36Tam Lin (Child 39)
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- #37Sir Patrick Spens (Child 58)
Anonymous
- #38Bonny Barbara Allen (Child 84A)
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- #39Willie o Winsbury (Child 100A)
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- #40Johnie Cock (Child 114)
Traditional Transcriptions
- #41The Battle of Otterburn (Ballad 161)
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- #42Geordie (Child 209)
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- #43The Braes O’ Yarrow (Child 214E)
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- #44The Mother’s Malison, or, Clyde’s Water (Child 216C)
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- #45Our Goodman
Traditional Transcriptions
- #46Thomas The Rhymer (37 B)
Anonymous
- #47The Elfin Knight (Child 2G)
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- #48The Elfin Knight (Child 2D)
Anonymous
Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane (Child 28) by Francis James Child
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Francis James ChildBurd Ellen and Young Tamlane (Child 28) Annotated
Burn Ellen sits in her bower windowe,
With a double laddy double, and for the double dow
Twisting the red silk and the blue.
With the double rose and the May-hay
And whiles she twisted, and whiles she twan,
With a double laddy double, and for the double dow
And whiles the tears fell down amang.
With the double rose and the May-hay
Till once there by cam Young Tamlane:
With a double laddy double, and for the double dow
‘Come light, oh light, and rock your young son.’
With the double rose and the May-hay
‘If you winna rock him, you may let him rair,
With a double laddy double, and for the double dow
For I hae rockit my share and mair.’
With the double rose and the May-hay
[section missing]
Young Tamlane to the seas he’s gane,
With a double laddy double, and for the double dow
And a’ women’s curse in his company’s gane.
With the double rose and the May-hay
Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane (Child 28) Q&A
What did Francis James Child say about "Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane (Child 28)"?
“I cannot connect this fragment with what is elsewhere handed down concerning Tamlane, or with the story of any other ballad.”